Darwin

One of India's Biggest Evolutionary Movements in Biology

Virtual Conference

December 2 to 5, 2021

Cutting Edge Biology

SVV STrust BIRAC riidl Bioriidl

About Us

Darwin is an International Conference to be held from 2nd to 5th December, 2021. To make this conference more accessible to everyone, we have decided to continue it virtually.

This is a global celebration of biology of research enthusiasts facilitated through a panel of experts sharing about cutting-edge research topics, talks by established biologists, virtual workshops, tours and the Research Symposium - a paper presentation competition. This year, the conference is centered around Cutting-Edge Biology with sub-themes: BioArt, Cell Biology and Medical Biology.

Along with several networking opportunities for bio-enthusiasts, Darwin 2021 will also feature working groups’ presentations about various research topics. Post the Darwin 2020 conference, these working groups initiated several research causes to work upon for a year and later get them published as Conference Proceedings.

About

1500+

Attendees

5

Projects funded

29+

Countries

24

Workshops

9

Research Papers published

Conference Overview

Research Symposium

Speaker Sessions

Panel Discussions

Workshops

Tours

Keynote Speaker

Phil Ross

Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer, MycoWorks

Our Speakers

Dr. Surendra Chavan

CEO, Founder and Board Director, Rubhu Biologics Inc, Athens

Dr. Howard Kaufman

Chief Medical Officer, Ankyra Therapeutics and Clinical Associate at Massachusetts General Hospital

Dr. Jennifer Willet

Director, INCUBATOR Art Lab

Dr. Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer, Stowers Institute

Anna Dumitriu

Artist

Manoj Gopalkrishnan

Founder and Director, Algorithmic Biologics Pvt. Ltd.

Praveen Tipirneni

President and CEO, Morphic Therapeutic Inc.

Dr. Oron Catts

Co-founder and Director, SymbioticA

Panel Discussion on 'Redesigning the Future of Science with BioArt'

Dr. Nathan Walworth

Adjunct Scientist, J. Craig Venter Institute

Carolyn Angleton

Co-founder, ARC/BAC

Dr. Stacy Switzer

Curator and Executive director, Fathomers

Dr. Ionat Zurr

Chair, The Fine Arts Discipline at the School of Design The University of Western Australia (UWA)

Dr. Paul Vanouse

Founding director, The Coalesce Center for Biological Art

Dr. Suzanne Anker

Chair of Fine Arts Department, School of Visual Arts

Panel Discussion on 'Aging: A curable disease or an inevitable process'

Dr. S. Jay Olshansky

Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at Lapetus Solutions, Inc. ; Professor

Dr. Yu-Xuan Lu

Ageing Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing (Germany)

Uday Saxena

Co-Founder, ReaGene Innovations

Alexandra Stolzing

Professor of Biogerontological Engineering, VP Research at SENS Research Foundation

Dr. Peter Fedichev

Co-founder & CEO, GERO

Panel Discussion on 'Cell and Developmental Biology: Perspectives from around the world'

Dr. Grant J. Jensen

Professor of Biochemistry and Dean of the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Brigham Young University (BYU).

Dr. Varsha Bhargava

"Molecular and Cell Biology Research Scientist I, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Dr. Siddhi Advani

Interdisciplinary Scientist and Skin Microbiome Researcher

Pre Events

Ask me Anything session on the Role of Open Science in the Thriving Research Community

Ask me Anything session on Science Journalism: A new Researcher’s Perspective

Ask me Anything session on the Emerging field of Biomaterials Science: Advancements and Opportunities

Ask me anything session in celebration of #womaninscience on Science for Everybody: Paving the path in life sciences

Ask Me Any session on Novel-Techniques in Medical Biology: From Organ on Chip to Lung Cancer Research

Ask me Anything session in celebration of #womaninscience on STEM in Society: How 3D Printing can shape the World

Ask Me Any session on Cancer Cell Pathways: How One Signal Can Make a Difference

Ask Me Any session on STEM opportunities: How One Can Pursue Cancer Research

Highlights


After Movie

Our Collaborators

Publications

Testimonials

Quotes

Darwin is about accelerated evolution. It is a celebration of all the things represented at the event. Most importantly, it is about open access to science and about equitable distribution of technology.

Prof. George Church

Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

Quotes

Mr. Erik Zepka, speaker at Darwin 2019 believes that open science needs to be multi-cultural. He says the Darwin conference to be one of the most rewarding, interactive, engaging and met the most interested communities here.

Mr. Erik Zepka

Founding President, Open Science Network

Quotes

It was an amazing experience, right from the keynote speech to the tours - learning how to start a business while going through all the challenges was interesting too. Different breakout sessions taught me about local Synthetic Biology. I was very inspired and I look forward to great works in the field of Synthetic Biology here in Africa. I’ll be glad to contribute to this development!

Mr. Alex Kyabarongo

iGEM Regional Ambassador Program Coordinator for Africa

Quotes

Mr. Salman Promon Khan, attendee at Darwin 2019 says that it was amazing to see bio-enthusiasts from different parts of the world come together for the conference. He believes that Darwin can initiate and create a big global movement for the enthusiasts of biology and science.

Mr. Salman Promon Khan

CEO, Mechamind and Star Labs BD

Quotes

It was a great conference made by great people and glad to put a grain of sand in there! I always felt inspired what Darwin and Bioriidl does and that honour is mutual. Looking forward to seeing what comes next.

Mr. Robert Ramirez Garcia

PhD student, Monash - Warwick Alliance & Former Chair, Education Committee, iGEM